Fighting Injustices Facing Our Clients
Maria (Mia) Severson
Maria (Mia) Severson
- Managing Partner
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Practice Areas
- Administrative Hearings & Adjudication
- Antitrust Law
- Unfair Competition
- Lending & Secured Transactions
- State & Municipal Bonds & Financing
- Commercial Leasing
- Franchising
- Secured Transactions
- Freedom of Information
- Freedom of Speech
- Defects
- Employment Law -- Employee
- Employment Discrimination -- Employee
- Wage & Hour Laws -- Employee
- Wrongful Termination -- Employee
- Energy Law
- Public Utilities
- Unfair Labor Practices
- Complex Litigation
- Federal Trial Practice
- Multidistrict Litigation
- State Trial Practice
- US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit
- Motor Vehicle Accidents -- Plaintiff
- Condominiums & Cooperatives
- Securities Law
- Private Placements
- Securities Fraud & Insider Trading
- Asbestos
Biography
Maria (Mia) Severson is an experienced trial lawyer. With 32 years of private and public practice, she has litigated complex matters involving fraud, unfair business practices, pension and labor matters, land use and environmental matters, and matters with damages over $700 million.
Just prior to forming the partnership, Ms. Severson was the Chief Deputy City Attorney for the City of San Diego, personally litigating major cases and overseeing all litigation involving the City.
She is a former member of the Los Angeles County Bar, San Diego County Bar, Judicial Evaluation Committee of the San Diego Bar Association, and National Association of Women Business Owners.
Education
- California Western School of Law, San Diego, California
- J.D.
- Iona College, New Rochelle, New York
- B.B.A.
- Honors: cum laude
- Major: Marketing
Bar Admissions
- California, 1994
- United States Supreme Court
- U.S. District Court Central District of California
- U.S. District Court Northern District of California
- U.S. District Court Southern District of California
- U.S. Court of Appeals 2nd Circuit
- U.S. Court of Appeals 4th Circuit
- U.S. Court of Appeals 9th Circuit
Professional Associations and Affiliations
- Hon. William B. Enright Inn of Court, Master
- Lawyers Club of San Diego
- American Business Trial Lawyers
- Consumer Attorneys of San Diego
- San Diego County Bar Association
- American Bar Association